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Definitions for repast
rɪˈpæst, -ˈpɑstrepast
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Princeton's WordNet
meal, repastnoun
the food served and eaten at one time
Wiktionary
repastnoun
A meal.
repastnoun
The food eaten at a meal.
repastverb
To eat a repast.
On Thanksgiving Day Americans repast on turkey.
Etymology: repast, from the verb repaistre, from repascere.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Repastnoun
Etymology: repas, Fr. re and pastus, Lat.
From dance to sweet repast they turn
Desirous; all in circles as they stood,
Tables are set. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. v.What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice,
Of Attick taste, with wine. John Milton.Sleep, that is thy best repast,
Yet of death it bears a taste,
And both are the same thing at last. John Denham.The day
Had summon’d him to due repast at noon. Dryden.Keep regular hours for repast and sleep. Arbuthnot.
Go, and get me some repast;
I care not what, so it be wholsome food. William Shakespeare.To Repastverb
To feed; to feast.
Etymology: repaistre, Fr. from the noun.
To his good friends I’ll ope my arm,
And, like the kind life-rend’ring pelican,
Repast them with my blood. William Shakespeare.
Wikipedia
Repast
A repast is a meal or taking of food.
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repast
A repast is a meal or the food provided or consumed in a meal. It can also refer to the act of eating or dining.
Webster Dictionary
Repastnoun
the act of taking food
Repastnoun
that which is taken as food; a meal; figuratively, any refreshment
Repast
to supply food to; to feast; to take food
Etymology: [OF. repast, F. repas, LL. repastus, fr. L. repascere to feed again; pref. re- re- + pascere, pastum, to pasture, feed. See Pasture.]
Wikidata
Repast
The Recursive Porous Agent Simulation Toolkit is a widely used free and open-source, cross-platform, agent-based modeling and simulation toolkit. Repast has multiple implementations in several languages and built-in adaptive features, such as genetic algorithms and regression. Repast was originally developed by David Sallach, Nick Collier, Tom Howe, Michael North and others at the University of Chicago.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Repast
rē-past′, n. a meal: the food taken: victuals: repose—(obs.) Repas′ture.—v.t. to feed.—v.i. to take food.—n. Repast′er, one who takes repast. [O. Fr.,—Low L. repastus (whence Fr. repas)—L. re-, inten. pastus, food—pascĕre, pastum, to feed.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of repast in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of repast in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of repast in a Sentence
The doctrine that enters only into the ear is like the repast one takes in a dream.
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
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